Why do intelligent people keep making stupid decisions?

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8 Deadly Sins in Football and Leadership — and How to Avoid Them

From Jürgen Klopp, Pep Guardiola, Mikel Arteta and Sir Alex Ferguson to Carlo Ancelotti, Luis Enrique, José Mourinho, Arsène Wenger, Ole Gunnar Solskjær and Claudio Ranieri, this book takes you inside some of football’s most revealing leadership stories. Along the way, we also meet Louis van Gaal, Thomas Tuchel, Xavi, Ernesto Valverde, Brian Clough — and many others.

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What can we learn from the extraordinary successes — as well as the costly mistakes — of clubs such as Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, Leicester City, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), Barcelona, Real Madrid, Everton and Leeds United?

Some built dynasties. Some transformed cultures. Some created extraordinary teams. Some achieved the seemingly impossible. Others were fired, inherited chaos or watched promising projects unravel.
What separates great leadership, strong cultures and smart decisions from panic, short-term thinking and costly mistakes?
Filled with passion, ambition and extraordinary talent, the game should be a model of excellence. It’s not. Clubs around the world continue to fall into the same traps: coaches are hailed as geniuses in May and sacked by November, boards panic, and short-term results override long-term thinking.

Authors Jon Morten Melhus and Morten Eriksen-Deinoff reveal, sin by sin, the eight behavioural and cultural mechanisms that cause football clubs to sabotage themselves — patterns that football experts, supporters and even the world’s biggest clubs consistently overlook.

More importantly, it shows how these destructive patterns can be broken, providing an evidence-based roadmap for building better-led clubs, stronger cultures and more successful teams.

“This is a timely and important book. Eriksen-Deinoff and Melhus provide a fresh angle on leadership through the lens of football. Football offers highly visible examples of good and bad decisions, many of which translate directly into lessons we can take back to our own lives. For anyone looking to improve decision-making in their organization, even if they only have a passing interest in football, I strongly recommend this book.”
– Julian Birkinshaw, Dean of Ivey Business School, Canada; former Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School; author of Leadership the Sven-Göran Eriksson Way.

The book is an entertaining, research-driven journey through the world of football, combining compelling stories, humour, psychology and practical tools.

Whether you are a chairman, CEO, sporting director, coach or supporter — or simply fascinated by leadership and human behaviour — this book will fundamentally change the way you look at the game.